LABOR: The Year of Peace

AFTER AFL-CIO Boss George Meany and three
other union leaders stormed off the Pay Board in March rumbling that
Phase II rules are stacked against workers, it seemed that the U.S.
might be in for a new period of labor turmoil. The exact opposite has
happened; 1972 so far shapes up as the year that the nation's strike
fever was broken. In May, work stoppages reached a 30-year low for
the month. During the first six months, production time lost to strikes
was only five seconds out of each potential man-hour of work,...